iRobot, the company behind Roomba, is convinced that the future lies in data collection and partnerships with corporations like Amazon and Google, as opposed to cleaning your floors or vacuuming the carpet.

Apple is reportedly considering building its own servers to keep the government from intercepting and infecting them with various kinds of malware. Such a move would almost certainly raise the stakes in the company’s ongoing battle with the FBI and NSA.

Apple has blasted a court order to provide the FBI with a de facto backdoor into its operating system and vowed to appeal the decision. How this case is decided will have a significant impact on privacy in the digital age.

In further security news this week, the NSA and GCHQ collaborated to steal millions of SIM card encryption keys from one of the world’s largest suppliers. This ensured they’d be able to monitor mobile communications worldwide no matter what — and they did it by targeting individuals accused of no crimes and not otherwise under investigation.